floe
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Ms Homendy said recovery workers were dealing with deteriorating weather conditions and that the wreckage had landed on an ice floe which is moving at a rate of five miles a day.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025
The emergency responders were able to rescue those four people from the floe at around 6:40 p.m.
From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2023
They were brought back to the ice floe to warm in a fishing shelter, the sheriff’s office said.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023
There at the top, glittering like an ice floe, is Cullinan I, the Star of Africa, 530 carats of virtually perfect diamond-ness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2023
If the pack disintegrated too soon, they would be unable to launch the boats and maneuver in the jumble of broken and grinding ice, and unable to find a floe large enough to camp on.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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